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FCF. Free Creative Flow. That is the reality of a start from not knowing.
When the start of the creative emergence is from not knowing, or to the extent it is, from not knowing—meaning no plan, no direction, no should-do, shouldn't-do, just the pure flow—to that extent, Free Creative Flow expresses itself, not used by you, by the so-called creator, to create the product that you want, the delivery, the output. It manifests. It's a living thing.
Why this is important and why this is important in the times that we live. I say it for years, but now I think there are hardly people that will not agree that artificial intelligence is capable of any mechanical creativity, any recombination, any changes, additions to the known. In a very, very creative way, it's capable of it, implemented already to some extent, and by the months excels in improving its creative capacity, which is mechanical, it's artificial.
But here is the amazing thing: it is not different in any way from the creativity of thought, thinking. A thinking process is a recombination of the known. So the mechanical creativity, which manifested to be a fully self-evolving artificial creativity—self-evolving, whether it exists now or will exist—the potentiality of it is already manifested. It's a matter of how much electricity will drive that.
So that and thought are at the same domain, and thought is in a huge disadvantage. All the data of thought was eaten by artificial intelligence, trained artificial intelligence, that surpasses any cognitive capacity of thought on a big scale. Whether certain implementations prove it or not, it's not important. But as a machine, artificial thinking is superior to human thinking when it comes to artificial creativity, recombination of the known at scale.
So what we are left with—connecting back to Free Creative Flow and starting from not knowing—we are left with human creative intelligence, which is different from the intelligence of thought, which is different from artificial mechanical intelligence. Human creative intelligence is Free Creative Flow. And it is not human in the sense of a skill that someone can develop and master and use to their benefit. There is no agenda. There is no direction. There is no beginning and no end, no movement of productivity in FCF.
And before you say, "So if that's the case, it's not interesting or not relevant, or what's the point of it," I advise that you take a quick look at the most intelligent system you can meet around you, which is nature. Nature is Free Creative Flow. Wherever you cut it, it starts again. And the essence of it cannot be owned or attributed to any human being or group of human beings or humanity as a whole. If at all, whatever humanity can act upon nature is destruction. If nature needs preservation, it's preservation from the human action, as a collective or as individuals.
So let's get back to it. Free Creative Flow is not yet another invention of thought. It's not a concept that Amihai came with or someone else, gave it a name, wrote a book, developed a tool, and is using to make a roadshow and get money. Free Creative Flow is the only fact of life that is truly an expression of human creative intelligence.
And here again, here is the connection: in an era that artificial intelligence that is mechanical, that is thought-based yet scaled through compute, is the dominant factor, is the driving factor, it's where all the resources come through, where all the interests go through, where all the fear, tunnel activities to, and development to. In that era, there is something that is the most important and the most forgotten. And that's the question of human creative intelligence, HCI, if you want to remember it.
Human creative intelligence, Free Creative Flow, and all that comes from it has the potential not just to buy a seat in the new cool spaceship that AI is building, but to be the driver of it, not because of control, regulation, design by architecture, but by the value that only it can manifest. And artificial intelligence can never manifest, no matter how sophisticated it will be and self-evolving and so on.
And again, all this sounds heavy, big, philosophical. Fine. Take all of that and replace it with one sentence: start from not knowing. And by not knowing, I mean the not knowing that only humans can meet. Not trivial. It's not lack of information. It's not a temporary new set of parameters to adjust to. It's a true aimless openness that is as alerted, sensitive, awake as it can be and beyond. It's a real thing.
